Pieter Bustijn: Suite No. 1 in d minor for harpsichord - Alessandro Simonetto - OnClassical

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Pieter Bustijn (also Pierre Bustyn or Pieter Buystijn) (baptized in 1649 -- 22 November 1729) was a Flemish composer, organist, harpsichordist and carillon player of the Baroque period.
Bustijn occupies a very minor place in music literature: only one of his works, in fact, has been discovered, the IX Suittes pour le Clavessin. This work, one opus number, was printed in Amsterdam in 1712 by the famous publisher Estienne Roger.
The reason for the lack of biographical details about Bustijn's life and music can be attributed to the loss of greater part of the Middelburg archives in 1940.

About the IX Suittes pour le Clavessin.
The IX Suittes pour le Clavessin occupy a unique position in Dutch music history. Little music composed in the Netherlands between 17th and 18th centuries was in fact printed and therefore many of these works have been lost in the course of time. The Bustijn's suites offer us an amazing look of Dutch musical life during the Baroque period and they are of great importance on the history of keyboard music in the Netherlands.
The printed edition of the Suites was very well known in the first half of the 18th century, enough to be cited in some catalogs as "The Hague" (1759). Even in an anthology of keyboard music, compiled by none other than Johann Gottfried Walther (1684--1748), appeared the name of Bustijn alongside names such as Buxtehude, J.L. Krebs, Bach and the French Clérambault and Nivers.
According to historian Albert Clement, the style of IX Suittes pour le Clavessin is placed between the works of earlier French masters and later German composers.

Similarity with J.S.Bach compositions.
The beginning of the Prelude of the Suitte VI (in a minor) is most identical with the theme of Praeambulum 6 (BWV 784) as well as the beginning of the Prelude of Suitte II (in D major) of the Dutch composer, is similar to the beginning of Fantasia BWV 787 (from Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, better known as Inventions and Sinfonias) of the genius of Eisenach. One could hypothesize that Bustijn had some influence even on the greatest of composers of Baroque era.

Music source.
Pierre Bustyn, Exempla Musica Zelandica I, IX Suittes pour le Clavessin, Amsterdam ca. 1712 (reprinted Middelburg 1992), facsimile edition (Brussels, Royal Library Albert I, Fetis 2956 B Mus.), published by Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschapten.

Text by Alessandro Simonetto with extracts from Albert Clement, Pieter Bustijn, Musicyn en Organist; now also on wikipedia.it/en

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[Contrapunctus1750]

Bravo!

[bronxboy47]

Thank you for this introduction to a composer totally unknown to me. Riveting performance.

[commieplot]

very very nice. musicians should be running the planet.

[harpsi8]

Wonderful, I hope you make more videos on the harpsichord.

[peipuss]

An excellent piece, a great performance.... a big bravo.

[Yoshiwara64]

Molto, molto bene!

Bravo!

Marco

[Tiririnti]

Beautiful!

[mattiaometto]

Notevole! :-)